Confusing accident. His rope, his bolts. In many cases a lot of the blame lies with whoever put in the lower-offs. Putting lower-offs 27m up will catch someone eventually. Or bolting a climb for a 60m rope in an area with nothing over 25m. Was lowered off the end once. Had a stoic belayer who deliberately stepped underneath me and broke the fall.

Not really, his belayer, and he, failed to knot the end of the rope and his belayer failed to notice the end was nigh;)

> His rope, his bolts. In many cases a lot of the blame lies with whoever put in the lower-offs.

Really? If I'm power-walking along a sidewalk (with my power-walking buddy) and fail to notice an upcoming crosswalk, walk into traffic and sustain an injury, is it the sidewalk builder's fault? Or my (ex) power-walking buddy's?

And he did mention in his blog the rope wasn't his...

>Putting lower-offs 27m up will catch someone eventually. Or bolting a climb for a 60m rope in an area>with nothing over 25m.

Please forgive my ignorance (it's been a big few days and I'm feeling slower than usual), but how can you bolt a climb for a 60mtr rope in an area no taller than 25mtr? Obviously including traverses would do it but otherwise...?

>Was lowered off the end once. Had a stoic belayer>who deliberately stepped underneath me and broke the fall.

Glad you survived, hopefully with no major injuries to you or your buddy...

On 14/11/2012 Miguel75 wrote:>On 14/11/2012 beuregaurd wrote:>>Putting lower-offs 27m up will catch someone eventually. Or bolting a>climb for a 60m rope in an area>>with nothing over 25m. >>Please forgive my ignorance (it's been a big few days and I'm feeling>slower than usual), but how can you bolt a climb for a 60mtr rope in an>area no taller than 25mtr? Obviously including traverses would do it but>otherwise...?

Sport cliff has all loweroffs bolted at 25m or less (cliff can be far taller). New route has anchors bolted 2 metres higher...